#erich remarque

[ahosia3]

[...] wie pan, co jest najstraszliwsze na świecie? [..] to, że w końcu wszystko staje się kwestią przyzwyczajenia.

~Erich Maria Remarque:"Kochaj bliźniegowięcej"

[achillesinvulnerabledickandballs]

If you read The Long Walk by Stephen King PLEASE read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque (or vice versa)

literally the same book

both got me feeling like

[araekniarchive]

hello! i love your blog and I just saw that your request are open again so…

war? a compilation about war and death poems?

i love your blog again 🤍

Siegfried Sassoon, To Any Dead Officer

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) dir. Lewis Milestone

Sabaton, The Price of a Mile

George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est

Arthur Miller, All My Sons

Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning

Eric Lomax, The Railway Man / The Railway Man (2013) dir. Jonathan Teplitzky

Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

[i-librichefortificanolanima]

Non siamo più spensierati, ma atrocemente indifferenti. Sapremmo forse vivere, nella dolce terra : ma quale vita? Abbandonati come fanciulli, disillusi come vecchi, siamo rozzi, tristi, superficiali. Io penso che siamo perduti.

Erich Remarque

[les-portes-du-sud]

Jusqu'à ce qu'un homme abandonne, il est plus fort que son destin.

Erich Remarque

[read-it-in-a-book]

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.”

[ahosia3]

Żyjemy w wieku paradoksów. By utrzymać pokój, prowadzimy wojnę.”

~ Erich Maria Remarque:"Noc w Lizbonie"

[teenageread]

Review: All Quiet on the Western Front

Synopsis:

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another – if only he can come out of the war alive.

Plot:

The war was everything. After an inspiring patriotic speech by Kantorek, their teacher, Paul and his classmates joined the German army to help fight in the war that would later be named World War One. Like most eighteen-year-old, they thought it was their duty to join the war, yet now at nineteen years old, Paul and his classmates are not so sure. Fighting at the French front, they experience small rations of food, daily bombing, and watching their fellow comrades die. Twenty were in their class that enlisted, and from that twenty, seven are dead, four wounded, one in the madhouse, but three became lieutenant. All because of Kantorek’s love for their nation. With mottos like this running through their ranks: “We Germans fear God and none else in the whole world” (85), Paul and his friend are faced with their decisions that war is not the answer. Paul spends his time on the front, to his week off where he goes home to his family, a training camp watching over the Russian prisoners of war, to the hospital, and back to the front. His journey deals with realizing what this war is and means to him, his friends that die along the way, and wonders if it was even worth it.

 Thoughts:

This story is marked the greatest war novel of all time, and there is no wonder to why that is. Going from the point of view of a soldier on the front lines during world war one, Erich Maria Remarque, puts his own war experiences in writing. As a soldier himself, Remarque fought for the German side and was wounded five times during his time on the front. What makes this story unique and powerful, for people on the west, is that this book took place from a German point of view, thus, the enemy of the Allies. This book, when it was first published in 1929, both in English and German, made the western world population realize that the Germans were not the enemies, and that the felt similar loses to that of their soldiers. Remarque really put a lot of emotion into this story of Paul, a child in some way, who had to learn about the horror of war first hand. For a read, this book is not always the best. Dry at some parts, Remarque does a great job in explaining the scene, but there are a lot of characters given by name, who never come up after that particular scene. Ramarque does an amazing job at one liner quotes to really drive home his opinions on the war, like this one: “The war has ruined us for everything” (87). Overall, a must for those into war novels and history, but highly recommend for everyone to really understand the horrors of a war, and why we should avoid them at all costs.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon